On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 at 23:36 INADA Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Ned Deily <n...@python.org> wrote: > > On Mar 28, 2017, at 08:49, INADA Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Currently, changelog of Python 3.7a1 [1] contains changes between > >> 3.6b1 and 3.7a1. > >> So lot's of bugfixes are listed twice or more in changelog. > >> For example, "bpo-28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale..." are > >> listed under 3.5.3rc1, > >> 3.6.0b2 and 3.7.0a1. > >> > >> [1] https://docs.python.org/3.7/whatsnew/changelog.html#changelog > > [...] > > > > Thanks for noticing. Misc/NEWS is always somewhat problematic. As you > probably know, the Core Workflow SIG, led by Brett, is working on a > long-term solution to generating Misc/NEWS, a solution that should be > available soon. One of the duties of the release manager is to "edit" > Misc/NEWS; I was planning to wait for the new Misc/NEWS solution and for > more of the conversion to Git/GitHub to settle to do anything major to the > master (i.e. 3.7) version. There have already been some major merge > mistakes for the 3.6.x Misc/NEWS. I would recommend not to worry too much > about master's Misc/NEWS right now. I may do some cleaning up before the > new Misc/NEWS process is introduced but I will also be reviewing it prior > to each of the preview releases, which start later this year. > > > > -- > > Ned Deily > > n...@python.org -- [] > > > > I forgot to mention about it. > I have seen three preview pull requests about new NEWS handling. All > of them are quite large. > That's one reason why I suggest removing some sections / entries from NEWS > now. > I thought reducing changelog size may help the transition. > > If I was wrong, let's stop discussion until transition. > I want to help workflow team. I don't want to disturb them. > I'm planning on make a decision on the tooling this week with the hope we can start the transition by the end of April so that maybe everything can be cleaned up by PyCon US.
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